monday monday monday;
Wasn’t it winter just last week or something? I didn’t expect to be woken on Saturday morning by bright sunlight creeping through the gaps (there’s always one) in my blackout curtains. And no, I didn’t sleep in.
Does anything scream “blog filler” more than an opening paragraph about the weather?
It hasn’t exactly been the most eventful of weekends. Indeed, it’s tempting to launch into six paragraphs of glowing praise for my shiny new toy: the external hard drive I bought a couple of months ago which has sat beneath our coffee table covered in bubble wrap ever since. While booting twenty gigs worth of music files off of my hard drive hasn’t really sped my knackered laptop up any, at least it’s got rid of the nasty message that pops up every so often telling me I’m so critically low on space that even System Restore has given up the ghost.
So that was how this cosmopolitan city girl spent her Friday night. Saturday’s plans were scuppered due to lack of finances, so we watched The Departed instead: lots of people got shot and it was ace. On Sunday we went to see Hot Fuzz at the cinema, and it was almost as good as Shaun of the Dead and I laughed so hard I nearly weed myself. Kudos for the Scummerfield-related in-jokes too.
I also managed to get my “main” pair of glasses – the expensive ones with the half-frame and the superthin lenses that I only wore the once because I sat on them – fixed. God, Paisley is a sad little town these days. I don’t have much reason to go anymore, but the main shopping centre consists of nothing but a collection of discount stores and mobile phone retailers. They sell nice muffins on the ground floor though.
Rushing off to meet our Julie for tonight’s journalistic endeavors: Regina Spektor at the QMU. Laterz.
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Shamelessly using song titles for blog titles now my dear? :p
Hot Fuzz is just brilliant. Being a Southern Country Girl, I found it most amusing. I know villages and towns like that one. My brother lives in one. Plus Simon Pegg and Nick Frost can do no wrong in my eyes.
I hope you like Regina. She was amazing when I saw her a couple of weeks ago. Dodgy Dashboard wannabe supporting though..
I seriously need to sort myself out with an External HD. I’ve got one picked out and everything..
I went to see Hot Fuzz last night, and loved it to bits. I liked all the wee references to Spaced and Shaun of the Dead, and Timothy Dalton was great. Ace!
If your laptop was low on space the files might be fragmented across the disk. It might be an idea to run Disk Defragmenter, which may have no obvious effect at all or it might boost it into whooshy fast speed. (A very technical term there.)
Nic, I’ve shamelessly used song lyrics on pretty much every single post! But yes, I was writing this at 5 o’clock on a Monday afternoon having not heard any music all day, so it wasn’t exactly my most clever one.
Nat: totally with you about Simon Frost & Nick Pegg: I was trying to exaplin to Stringer how the sense of humour in Spaced and their films mirrors mine exactly with its geeky references and just the right level of the juvenile. I’ll need to write about Regina later but her voice was in amazing form as ever. I’d never seen her with a band before and I was a little disappointed – their application later in the set added to the creepiness of songs like “Apres moi” but almost drowned her out during the poppy tracks. The shitty venue might also have been at fault though. Are you guys going to see the Hold Steady?
David, thanks for the tip! I’ve tried to run disk defragmenter and got bored but hopefully I’ll be able to have a go tonight. Yay for whooshyness!
Also, run Disk Cleanup if you haven’t already – gets rid of lingering temp internet files and other such rubbage. Alternatively, back everything up on the external and do Windows recovery – it’ll be like a brand new computer! (until you put stuff on it etc)
i neeed explaining about the film referencing comic geek sense of humour of Simon big train pegg?
Oh I know but it was the first one I actually remember recognising.
Plus I am/was tired. Little things like recognising such things please me.
*snugs*
Mental note for more T&S in the future then <3
LOL ta :lurve:
Did you get your skirt?
I couldn’t find one that covered me arse. Meh
Do you go to Murray Opticians? I’d find it highly amusing if we both went to the ghost town for the same shop. x
Nope, Black & Lizars on New St!